Scientists at the San Diego Zoo have made a tremendous leap forward. After working for over three years with a 270-pound gorilla named Sampson, researchers say he is now able to fully express over 1,500 signs of modified sign language and has even come out as a homosexual to his father!

Some folks looking at a disabled young chicken might think: General Tso. Andrea Martin figured out a way to get the hen fitted with a prosthetic leg.

Amazing facts about Eagles such as behaviour, intelligence, physical, diet, life span, size, weight, habitat, range and latin name.

Flamingos are large birds with long necks, sticklike legs and pink or reddish feathers. The colors of the feathers come from pigments found in their food.

For the first time, scientists have successfully treated bats infected with White-Nose Syndrome.

The Scarlet ibis lives in the northern part of South America. It can be found in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela including Guyana and French Guyana) and along the coast of Brazil to the Amazon Delta.

Having to survive in the dark, New Zealand kiwis adapted, subbing out the development of certain genes related to sight and enhancing others more useful to nocturnal living.

“This here is my favorite cabinet,” Hein van Grouw tells me as we walk around the back rooms of the Natural History Museum at Tring, 30 miles northwest of London as the crow flies. He pulls the steel double-doors open, revealing a menagerie of stuffed birds. On the top shelves there are snipes, rails, and pigeons. Below them are thrushes and blackbirds…

An extensive new study suggests climate change is also killing off the bees.

Animals protect their skeletons through suppressed but balanced bone remodeling.

Reviving dinosaurs from ancient DNA will never happen, but real-life genetic engineering is turning birds more dino-like.

A team of Australian researchers want to protect surfers by dressing them in zebra stripes.

Making friends and acquaintances is not a random act for kangaroos, instead they actively choose who they mix with and how often. Female eastern grey kangaroos have been shown to spend time with some other females while avoiding others altogether. Kangaroos live in a fission-fusion society, characterised by frequent changes of group membership, with individuals moving between temporary feeding groups and switching groups many times a day.